Lessons from the villages

A US-returned student is taking city-bred youngsters to rural areas to give them a taste of the countryside. Chen Nan reports.

Wang Xingyu's first trip to the village of Jinlong last August was one of discovery. The 26-year-old Wang drove about 20 hours from Shanghai to observe and study the small, remote and isolated village in Huayuan county, in the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture in Central China's Hunan province, which has about 600 ethnic Miao people.

And what Wang saw there - the mountains, rivers, narrow lanes and wooden houses - was in sharp contrast to New York, where he lived from 2015 to 2017 while studying for his master's degree in international relations at New York University.